Interesting article in Tuesday’s New York Times. Apparently, the Iraqi security forces have taken to using divining rods to search for explosives, against the advice of U.S. trainers and advisors.…

Love and Being in Love: Love is in our mind and is fueled by chemicals and chemistry.New love produces the chemistry in love we all seek. Throughout history, mankind has deemed the heart the center…

A Rotation with Translation Movement is standalone natural phenomenon For this experiment, two identically thin cylinders which are initially static to the observer are taken. These cylinders…

1571 was also interesting. Galileo Galilei was then seven years old. Johannes Kepler was born on December 27. There were two solar eclipses, a total on January 25 and an annular on July 21-22.…

“Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources, many based on their use in traditional medicine…

I live in an academic bubble into which very little pop culture penetrates. I guess a few years ago there was a movie called The Squid and the Whale? I have just learned of its existence.…

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA ABSTRACT The state of Rajasthan is situated…

Climbers and twinners: Cocculus pendulus (Forst.) Diels.; Celastrus paniculata Willd.; Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers.; Blastania fimbristipula (Fensl.) Kotschy et Peyr.; Citrullus colocynthis…

I don't know what it says about me that I love this stuff. Probably nothing good. Perhaps Weird Al Yankovic could do a rendition of CCR's Fortunate Son. Some folks are born to test emission…

A friend, John Kovalic, once quipped "I now have more social networks than I have friends."  So for today, a trio of social media webtoons.  The first is Cat and Girl, the other two are…

United Nations is playing key role in planning and development of bio-energy programmes at the global level. FAO’s bioenergy programme bases its operations on the following concepts: a) bioenergy…

Did someone mention Elvis? This research made the cover of ACS's Journal of Physical Chemistry in color.    The diatomic cyanide ion CN− is released sometimes by the chemical compounds…

• Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective? To compare the…

·     Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective? To…

Sanganer the world famous printing industry and hand paper industry has totally polluted the water of famous town of Sanganer Jaipur Behind the colourful bedsheets , skirts , and dress material there…

Its people who can fight and control the climate  change and carbon and pollution levels and not the Governments as they dont create pollution Its greed of the people , greed of the heavy…

Carl Sagan conjectured that early diurnal mammals feasted on the eggs of nocturnal dinosaurs. He remarked whimsically that a modern breakfast of chicken eggs is among the few relics of our immemorial…

A couple of years ago, Dr. Kubodera, who has a remarkable talent for filming large, unusual squid underwater, got some footage of Taningia danae. This octopoteuthid squid is notable for a) being…

Look what's happening in Britain!  I have just been reading a newspaper article:  Climate change belief given same legal status as religion  which starts: An executive has won the…

So, back in the 60's, I had a weather changing machine that was, in essence, a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser." Now this "laser"  is used ubiquitously for everything from…